Domingo Caycedo

Domingo Caycedo (4 August 1783-1 July 1843) was President of Gran Colombia from 4 May to 13 June 1830 (succeeding Simon Bolivar and preceding Joaquin Mosquera) and President of New Granada from 3 May to 23 November 1831 (preceding Jose Maria Obando) and on 1 April 1841 (succeeding Jose Ignacio de Marquez and preceding Pedro Alcantara Herran). Caycedo was a member of the Colombian Conservative Party.

Biography
Domingo Caycedo was born in Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia in 1783, and he served in the Spanish Army during the Peninsular War. In 1810, he returned to the Americas to take part in the South American Wars of Liberation, and he served under Simon Bolivar during the wars of liberation. He was captured by the Spanish, and he was freed under probation, later fighting at the Battle of Boyaca in 1819. In 1827, he served as Governor of Neiva, and he rose to the rank of General of the Army and became a member of Bolivar's inner circle. Caycedo went on to serve as President of Gran Colombia in 1830 and as President of New Granada in 1831 and in 1841, and he served as acting president for a total of 11 times. He died in 1843.